Posters, fanart and more.

Busy weekend this time around.  Finally got some work done on my third anti-bullying poster, and pretty happy with it.

Also got around to some Becca Levy fanart, right now just an outline drawing, but soon going to color it in and give it a background to make it look like a comic book cover.

Also worked some more on the video, just need to fix one of the animations to be a little less ambiguous and then will post the next draft of it up.

Becca!!!

Skipped blogging yesterday, a bit too much going on -- Becca Levy came by for a few days to record some videos for Indiegogo and Kickstarter.  Me and a few other interns actually got to leave leads for a bit to work with Becca on making these videos.  We basically just sat down to work on "scripts" (more outlines than actual scripts, to hopefully give the videos a more improvised feel).  It was for five different videos, and we watched a few different videos other people had put up on Indiegogo and Kickstarter to get ideas for what the most successful videos did and why they were successful.
Today, we all went over the "Fix You" draft I posted on youtube, and finally got down to some tweaks and fixes that need to be done to try to polish this video up a bit.  It's certainly safe to say that I have plenty to work on.
I also worked on two of the anti-bullying posters, specifically the text.  I can’t decide for the first one whether to keep the pink bars or not, and still not liking the font for villain one yet.

 

Guess I’ll just have to keep experimenting and seeing what works.

Activities Lately

Not much news to report today.  Got started on a couple of new art projects, just outlines to start drawing over digitally, not really anything ready to be posted for feedback yet.  Worked more on leads today, found using the Google Maps method gets me a lot more leads much more quickly than using Manta, though it is a bit more disorganized compared to using the Manta lists. 

Over the weekend I was happy to hear that everyone at the office got to see the draft of the “Fix You” video I put up, and that it seems to be going in the right direction.  Can’t wait to get it polished up and finally finished, and I’m sure the other interns who worked on it with me would like to see the final product as well.

I’ve also started to use the “modulate” method that Ron was talking about last time, but I’m finding myself blown away by just how much I have done so far in these few short months, which is definitely a good thing, though I can’t wait to start getting ideas for how to word the “modules” to really boost up my resume.

Why is Manta problematic?

Usually doing leads is pretty easy, just click the link, do your research, get your information, repeat.  However, when Manta decides to be annoying, it gets a little more complicated.  Today, for instance, if your list had multiple pages, Manta refused to go past the first page, so longer lists were pretty much impossible to do today.  Luckily, Laura came to the rescue!  A new technique for finding leads, where we basically just started from one business in a town, Google mapped it, and look around the map for more businesses.  Took awhile to adjust, but once I found my groove (by starting from the center point business and spiraling out) it turned out to be more interesting and less monotonous than using Manta.
We also had another epic intern meeting with Ron, where we learned about Joseph's Team, which is an autism group, and how they have comedy shows that the interns can volunteer to help with.  We also learned about resume building, and the importance of targeted resumes rather than general ones.  The easiest way to keep up the resumes being what Ron calls "modulating," or making lists of everything we've done, boxing up each individual thing to keep it easy to change up the resume when need be.
I also reworked one of my posters a bit:

Makes it seem a little darker and scary, but my text is still an issue I need to work on, but as soon as I'm happy with the text I think this poster will be completed.

Hello again

Not much to report today about yesterday, did more leads as always.  Though in our intern meeting, we did discuss a new project, collecting contact information for high schools, junior high schools, police and fire departments and hospitals to try to get Becca doing some anti-bullying presentations.  Seems easy enough so far, though I'm still only on my first town.
I also learned about the fanart that we can do for Becca, which doesn't seem like that difficult a thing to do, I just never thought of it.  Already have an idea in my head for a piece, will post some pics as soon as I get it out of my head and into an image.

What I've been up to

So last week, as always, we worked a bit more on leads, and then were split up into groups to do some research on a few different things.  In my group, we researched kickstarter.com to see if it had any potential for the One Night Stand campaign, which it turns out, it didn't.  Kickstarter requires that a project have a definite goal and end, and that an actual product be made from it.  It does not allow charity or cause funding, so that kind of automatically means it won't allow this particular campaign.  After that, we worked on learning more about crowdfunding on the Music Think Tank blog, which gave us a lot of in depth information to work with. 

I also got an idea for a new anti bullying poster -- kind of going along the rather morbid lines of school shootings, taking it from the perspective of a first person shooter video game.  The wording needs work, but my general idea is to talk about how 'experts' blame video games for the violence, but that most students say school shootings are motivated by the desire for revenge against bullies.  Soon as I have a rough draft, I will post it for feedback.

Activities lately

So, yesterday I wasn't able to come in due to a cold, but I still did a few leads from home before going into a cold medicine-induced coma :)  Today is much a better day, got plenty of leads done, worked on the anthem list a bit more as well.  And, finally posted the next draft of the "Fix You" video:

Will still need plenty of work, I'm sure, but can't wait to get some feedback!